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Originally Posted by SirKeldon
Forget BigWater and all Thermaltake watercooling products, they're meant to be weak and easily brokable (speaking from the experience) ... if you want to get a kit, go for the Swiftech one's, some are "standalone" and some are extendable ... but IMO the best way is to build your own kit with the components you want, it can be cheap too, not as 50 pounds of course ... but for that price i'll recommend you to get a good air cooler and good TIM, you'll get the same results than on bigwater with coolers such Xigmatek HDT-S1283 or ThermalRight Ultra Extreme 120 ... cause with that kit you can forget to cool efficiently your 5000+ plus a video card.
If your budget is really small, then go for the Swiftech H20-110 Compact, performs really well and it's 1000 times more reliable than BigWater and all Thermaltake water stuff ... but if you're decided to go water and specially if you want to cool CPU & GPU ... my recommendation is to save a lil bit more of money and start investigating more for the best thermal solution with your budget (for 100-120 pounds you can grab reliable mid-high components to cool in a right way your CPU and videocard), take a look for these two threads:
Watercooling FAQ by fitseries3 - http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=53075
Naturally Aspired PC WaterCooling Club - http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=52032

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cheers for the advice - my friend who usually buys things that i end up getting has the thermaltake kit and he cant fault it - he has added another loop in for a GPU block and has ended with a full watercooling setup for about 120 quid. He gets good thermal results and, like me, could have bought X air cooler but wanted that "wow" factor about his case. Im going to price up a self build kit, but, seeing as this will be my first step into the world of watercooling, i would rather go for a cheap pre built kit and gain some experience about water cooling before building my own. If you get me haha.
Thanks for the links to the guides - just what i needed cheers.